Triggers and Causes of Feelings
Understand that feelings have causes — something happens (a trigger) and that makes us feel a certain way — and begin to identify what triggers their own emotions
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Link a fictional character's stated emotion to an event without claiming every feeling has one obvious cause.
Can use because as a link; personal memories not needed.
Check activity readiness with accessible response; pause or supply prerequisite help when needed. Do not treat age range or graph position as attainment.
Open teaching first, then learner cards. Adult key stays separate. Read supplied content; do not invent a passage, scene or history image.
Show and guided material are for teaching. Put them aside before recall; any passage, word bank or model used during the check must be recorded as support. Learner givens remain available for source-reading tasks.
Only scrap paper, pencil or ordinary safe objects where the authored task explicitly uses them; oral/pointing alternatives allowed.
No account, recording, real-user data or compulsory personal disclosure.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Understand that feelings have causes — something happens (a trigger) and that makes us feel a certain way — and begin to identify what triggers their own emotions
Bounded objective and prepared task only; all examples, universal claims and real-world behaviour are not established. No own-experience trigger list or compulsory first-person sentence. Character sentences are an adaptation of the canonical first-person requirement.
- partial: Describe a trigger for at least three different emotions from their own experience
Three fictional causes replace personal experiences.
- partial: Complete 'I felt ___ because ___' sentences accurately
Third-person fictional sentence frames replace personal I-felt disclosure.
- opportunity: Identify what made a character in a story feel a particular way
Three explicit story links are available.
- partial: When {{name}} gets upset about something at school, can they explain to you what happened that made them feel that way?
Prepared adapted check is not a complete equivalent to all source contexts, images or genuine independent habits. No own-experience trigger list or compulsory first-person sentence. Character sentences are an adaptation of the canonical first-person requirement.
No own-experience trigger list or compulsory first-person sentence. Character sentences are an adaptation of the canonical first-person requirement.
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Link a fictional character's stated emotion to an event without claiming every feeling has one obvious cause.
Link a fictional character's stated emotion to an event without claiming every feeling has one obvious cause.
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Check understanding
- Describe a trigger for at least three different emotions from their own experience
- Complete 'I felt ___ because ___' sentences accurately
- Identify what made a character in a story feel a particular way
“When your child gets upset about something at school, can they explain to you what happened that made them feel that way?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Emotional Literacy
- Age range
- Ages 5–7
Standards